Checked the auction notices in the paper, and your property isn't there, Donuel. As you may know, it has to be listed in a newspaper of record for 30 days before the sale. And, now that I think of it, it is the county that handles this, not the state. And income tax doesn't come into it at all.

I would suggest that the reason that you get into trouble is that you don't get this stuff sorted out properly. Best of luck. If your property is auctioned, you have a certain amount of time to come up with the back taxes, plus interest, that you pay to the lucky winner of the auction, who must then give your property back to you.

Perhaps Mudcatters, always generous to a fault, would help you to scrape the taxes together.